Stable Block and Attached Forecourt Wall Approximately 5 Metres to North-West of Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. A C18 Stable block.
Stable Block and Attached Forecourt Wall Approximately 5 Metres to North-West of Ford House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-moulding-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Stable block
- OS grid reference
- SJ 412 139
- Coordinates
- 52.71958, -2.87107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block and attached forecourt wall, located approximately 5 metres to the north-west of Ford House, date from the early 18th century. Constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof, the building is two storeys high and features a dentil brick eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with chamfered sandstone copings, which are moulded at the base. A small brick ridge stack is present on the roof.
On the north-east front, there is a central circular window on the first floor, flanked by boarded loft doors and pairs of ventilation slits. The ground floor has two 2-light segmental-headed wooden casements on either side of a central depressed-arched entrance, which contains three segmental-headed boarded doors. To the right of the entrance is a large red sandstone hinge block.
Adjoining the south-west side is a short section of forecourt wall, made of red brick with a red sandstone coping. This wall is approximately 7 metres long and one metre high, curving around and ramping up to a square brick gate pier topped with a pyramidal stone cap.
Inside, the stable block features a central ground-floor tack room that includes panelling, a fireplace, and a corner cupboard. The stable block is part of a small courtyard that also includes a barn and a dovecote, all situated to the north-west of Ford House.
Local climate
Stable Block and Attached Forecourt Wall Approximately 5 Metres to North-West of Ford House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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